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The flighty purpose never is o'ertook,
Unless the deed go with it.

— Macbeth, Act IV Scene 1

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KEYWORD: forsooth

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# Result number	Work The work is either a play, poem, or sonnet. The sonnets are treated as single work with 154 parts.	Character Indicates who said the line. If it's a play or sonnet, the character name is "Poet."	Line Shows where the line falls within the work. The numbering is not keyed to any copyrighted numbering system found in a volume of collected works (Arden, Oxford, etc.) The numbering starts at the beginning of the work, and does not restart for each scene.	Text The line's full text, with keywords highlighted within it, unless highlighting has been disabled by the user.
1	Merry Wives of Windsor [I, 1]	Slender	247	No, I thank you, forsooth, heartily; I am very well.
2	Merry Wives of Windsor [I, 1]	Slender	249	I am not a-hungry, I thank you, forsooth. Go, sirrah, for all you are my man, go wait upon my cousin Shallow. [Exit SIMPLE] A justice of peace sometimes may be beholding to his friend for a man. I keep but three men and a boy yet, till my mother be dead: but what though? Yet I live like a poor gentleman born.
3	Merry Wives of Windsor [I, 4]	Simple	422	Ay, forsooth.
4	Merry Wives of Windsor [I, 4]	Simple	425	No, forsooth: he hath but a little wee face, with a little yellow beard, a Cain-coloured beard.
5	Merry Wives of Windsor [I, 4]	Simple	428	Ay, forsooth: but he is as tall a man of his hands as any is between this and his head; he hath fought with a warrener.
6	Merry Wives of Windsor [I, 4]	Hostess Quickly	451	Ay, forsooth; I'll fetch it you. [Aside] I am glad he went not in himself: if he had found the young man, he would have been horn-mad.
7	Merry Wives of Windsor [I, 4]	Simple	480	Ay, forsooth; to desire her to—
8	Merry Wives of Windsor [II, 1]	Hostess Quickly	722	Ay, forsooth; and, I pray, how does good Mistress Anne?
9	Merry Wives of Windsor [II, 2]	Hostess Quickly	879	Ay, forsooth; and then you may come and see the picture, she says, that you wot of: Master Ford, her husband, will be from home. Alas! the sweet woman leads an ill life with him: he's a very jealousy man: she leads a very frampold life with him, good heart.
10	Merry Wives of Windsor [III, 2]	Robin	1316	I had rather, forsooth, go before you like a man than follow him like a dwarf.
11	Merry Wives of Windsor [III, 3]	Servant	1545	To the laundress, forsooth.
12	Merry Wives of Windsor [III, 5]	Falstaff	1811	No, Master Brook; but the peaking Cornuto her husband, Master Brook, dwelling in a continual 'larum of jealousy, comes me in the instant of our encounter, after we had embraced, kissed, protested, and, as it were, spoke the prologue of our comedy; and at his heels a rabble of his companions, thither provoked and instigated by his distemper, and, forsooth, to search his house for his wife's love.
13	Merry Wives of Windsor [IV, 1]	William Page	1956	Forsooth, I have forgot.
14	Merry Wives of Windsor [IV, 5]	Hostess Quickly	2398	From the two parties, forsooth.
15	Merry Wives of Windsor [V, 2]	Slender	2515	Ay, forsooth; I have spoke with her and we have a nay-word how to know one another: I come to her in white, and cry 'mum;' she cries 'budget;' and by that we know one another.

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